More profiles of the ranks of the Maidan:
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Liga.net, and other media quote a parliamentary source as saying say five parties -- Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Popular Front, Samopomych (Self-Help), the Radical Party, and Fatherland (Batkivshchyna) -- have signed a coalition agreement after tough talks following the October 26 elections.
It reportedly includes NATO membership as a stated goal, efforts to win back Crimea through legal channels, and minimum 3 percent defense spending.
The Interpreter offers a good precis of the detailed Liga.net report, including noting:
Thus there are 289 [seats] in the ruling coalition, 29 in the Opposition Bloc, 7 combined in ultranationalist parties Right Sector and Svoboda, 3 in other small parties, and 96 (21%) declared as independent.
Pro-Maidan messages trickling in from European officials.
Ukraine's president starts the day with a tribute to the Euromaidan (and later just "Maidan") protests that began one year ago today in response to then-President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to abandon talks aimed at an EU Association Agreement.
That concludes our live blogging for Thursday, November 20. Follow our continuing coverage of events in Ukraine and elsewhere in RFE/RL's broadcast region HERE.
And follow U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's continuing visit to Ukraine here:
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